Mon. 11/29 – Jack Dorsey To Leave Twitter

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🗓️ 29 November 2021

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Jack Dorsey is reportedly about to be a one company CEO if he steps down from Twitter. The acquisition of Giphy is on life support. Folks remember Microsoft could be an antitrust target too. Will Apple’s AR headset not need to be tethered to an iPhone? And a look at just how much Amazon has increased its delivery capacity. Sponsors: Napjitsu.com/techmeme OurCrowd.com/ride Links: Twitter CTO Parag Agrawal will replace Jack Dorsey as CEO (CNBC) Twitter CTO Parag Agrawal replaces Jack Dorsey as CEO (The Verge) UK regulator expected to block Meta’s Giphy deal (Financial Times) Social media companies could be forced to give out names and contact details, under new anti-troll laws (ABC News) EU companies issue formal complaint against Microsoft OneDrive Windows integration (ZDNet) Report: Apple still working on multi-device charger, a future where all devices ‘can charge each other’ (9to5Mac) Kuo: Apple AR Headset Coming in Late 2022 With Mac-Level Computing Power (MacRumors) Amazon Builds Out Network to Speed Delivery, Handle Holiday Crunch (WSJ) Amazon poised to pass UPS and FedEx to become largest U.S. delivery service by early 2022, exec says (CNBC) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Monday, November 29th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.0	Jack Dorsey is reportedly about to be a one company CEO if he steps down from Twitter.
0:15.1	The acquisition of Giffy is on life support.
0:18.3	Folks remember Microsoft could be an antitrust target too.
0:22.0	Will Apple's AR headset not need to be tethered to an
0:24.8	iPhone and a look at just how much Amazon has increased its delivery capacity.
0:29.0	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. Early this morning David Faber was reporting that
0:37.7	sources were telling him that Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is expected to step
0:42.0	down from that CEO position.
0:45.0	Quote, Dorsey currently serves as both the CEO of Twitter and Square, his digital payments
0:50.0	company.
0:51.0	Twitter stakeholder Elliot Management had sought to replace Jack Dorsey as
0:53.9	CEO in 2020 before the investment firm reached a deal with the company's
0:57.6	management. Elliot Management founder and billionaire investor Paul Singer
1:01.2	had wondered whether Dorsey should run both of the public companies
1:04.3	calling for him to step down as CEO of one of them.
1:07.9	It is unclear who is set to succeed Dorsey, but if he steps down, the next CEO will
1:12.4	have to meet
1:13.0	Twitter's aggressive internal goals. The company said earlier this year, it
1:16.4	aims to have 315 million monetizable daily active users by the end of
1:20.0	2023 and to at least double its annual revenue in that year."
1:24.8	It is worth noting that early this morning Twitter stock was up as much as 10% on this
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